It turns out, I'd heard of Taste of Tops months ago, but I had assumed that my friend was referring to his own mixed selection from Tops liquor store. This friend has a nickname for everything -- he calls his Tupperware "Tuppies", he calls single cigarettes "Loosies". I should have known that Taste of Tops was not a creation from his imagination when it didn't end in "-ies".
Alas, I was a fool, but I love their eclectic and rotating tap selection as well as their bottles and their strange exhaust system that occasionally billows in pizza aromas from the place next door. Another treasure in the stripmall matrix that is metroPhoenix.